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A cabinet shop gave me a zillion mahogany cut-offs. 2X6's about 10" in
length. My new Jet mini has sure had a fun workout. I've made enough
bottle stoppers to cork Napa Valley's yearly vintage, enough small bowls
to hold the world lettuce crop and enough small boxes to contain a
retirement home's bric-a-brac. I need your suggestions for ways to
embellish my 'old hat, 'same ole- same ole' usual designs. There are
lots of lists of things to make, but not so much on gussying up standard
small bowls & boxes, and what is available has been done so often that
they have become standards themselves. viz, Raffin, Stott et
al........and me!

Mahogany is bland but not unattractive. It turns easily and takes
vinegar-iron ebonizing well. It's much too good to waste, but the 2X6
size limits bowl design, at least for me.

Like the old song," I don't want to set the (art) world on fire", I
just want to make some unusual and different boxes & small bowls, Not
tops, whistles, yo-yo's and garden dibbers. Remember that I am only an
intermedite turner, whatever that is, and no, I don't want to ship the
stock to your shop. Arch

"Arch" wrote in message
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A cabinet shop gave me a zillion mahogany cut-offs. 2X6's about 10" in
length. My new Jet mini has sure had a fun workout. I've made enough
bottle stoppers to cork Napa Valley's yearly vintage, enough small bowls
to hold the world lettuce crop and enough small boxes to contain a
retirement home's bric-a-brac. I need your suggestions for ways to
embellish my 'old hat, 'same ole- same ole' usual designs. There are
lots of lists of things to make, but not so much on gussying up standard
small bowls & boxes, and what is available has been done so often that
they have become standards themselves. viz, Raffin, Stott et
al........and me!

Mahogany is bland but not unattractive. It turns easily and takes
vinegar-iron ebonizing well. It's much too good to waste, but the 2X6
size limits bowl design, at least for me.

Like the old song," I don't want to set the (art) world on fire", I
just want to make some unusual and different boxes & small bowls, Not
tops, whistles, yo-yo's and garden dibbers. Remember that I am only an
intermedite turner, whatever that is, and no, I don't want to ship the
stock to your shop (clip)
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Well, since you have just ruled out the best option, then how about:
segmented turning, inlays, carved embellishment, hand-forged iron handles or
pedestals, reverse gluing concentric rings to form deeper bowls?

Square turnings are fun. You can leave 'em open, cap 'em, even make them as
"legs" for others.

"Arch" wrote in message
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Like the old song," I don't want to set the (art) world on fire", I
just want to make some unusual and different boxes & small bowls, Not
tops, whistles, yo-yo's and garden dibbers. Remember that I am only an
intermedite turner, whatever that is, and no, I don't want to ship the
stock to your shop. Arch

"Owen Lowe" wrote in message
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You could rough out bowl or box shapes, then applying Artistic License
101 from the Jackson Pollack School of Technique, shoot them with a 12
gauge. Finish turn them to thickness revealing the scatter patterned
orbs of lead. Perhaps not a food-safe item tho.

George wrote:
Arch, as a law-abiding waterfowler uses only steel shot....

"Owen Lowe" wrote in message
news
You could rough out bowl or box shapes, then applying Artistic License
101 from the Jackson Pollack School of Technique, shoot them with a 12
gauge. Finish turn them to thickness revealing the scatter patterned
orbs of lead. Perhaps not a food-safe item tho.

Bowls are water fowl? Dang. The stuff they don't teach you in school these
days. I never knew...